Wikiseek Open Beta Is Live

Wikiseek is a search engine that indexes only Wikipedia links. Created by SearchMe, and it is an interesting (if limited) alternative to Google. According to the schpeel:

1. Wikiseek searches Wikipedia, and the "external links" of Wikipedia
articles. These are considered authoritative Internet sources. This means
that the search results are only as comprehensive as Wikipedia. Wikiseek is
NOT a search engine of the entire World Wide Web.

2. The current index is not dynamically updated. Extremely new content at
Wikipedia will not be reflected in our index.

3. We are testing an 8-bit character set version of the software. This means
that extended international characters will not be displayed. Ultimately,
Wikiseek will support international character sets.

Techcrunch has some update on it as well...

Wikia to launch search

Wikia is embarking on a new project that it claims is "A project to create the search engine that changes everything"

From the project page:

"Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.

Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will change all that."

Nobody believed that community powered encyclopedia would work, but it did. But will a community powered search engine work?

Wikia launches openserving

According to this article, Jimmy Wales, the founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia is launching a service offering free tools for people who want to build community websites. The site, openserving.com allows you to create collaborative blogs. From the looks of it, this comes from its recent acquisition of armchairgm.com